Clever, those television programmers.
In the late 1970s they were among the last to discover that news is not
just news, it is also (Lights! Cameras! Banter!) entertainment. So if
news can be entertainment, why not turn entertainment into news?
Presto, Entertainment Tonight was born: news in form, entertainment in
content, a TV hybrid. There may be no business like show business, but
there's good business in show-business news.